Population is around 5,000 people.

He said your best to stay out of the city rentals and here's the reason's.First you will pay a 4% transfer tax on city homes, normally for most other areas in PA it is 2% transfer tax.Second he claimed 70% of the cities population are Hispanic who for this city have a reputation of drug use, and have a track record of not treating property well and often will get behind on rents.Third he claimed 80% of the city is on welfare, all the big companies have move out of the area making it a poor city economically to invest inFrom our conversation I said where the 8 homes were located and they were all in bad neighbourhood's or blocks.

It's in a small town with a population of 225.

Also, we live in an area with a pretty high Spanish speaking population.

Nevertheless, even if this place becomes a less favorable destination for transplants, we do have a population that will need to expand with natural growth and that will sustain real estate prices for a while.

The major problem that we're running into mentally is that Columbus' population is in very slow decline (less than a tenth of a percent per year).

A small town (population 250) and the nearest metro area is 45 minutes away. 

ref=usNotice the following:Larger, expensive cities have not seen large percentage increases in population (ex.

You're talking about a city with a housing stock built for a couple of million people, that now have a population of what, half a million?

I think the bigger population leads to more opportunities to get creative deals together.